Taste Quotes
I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't tha...
Show MoreThe loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injuriou...
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I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained...
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Show MoreThe paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...
Show MoreThe reason is that you eat too many foods that are high in "calories," which are little units that m...
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It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.
We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mir...
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I’m not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga’s ”Poker Face”]
In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which w...
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Taste is the feminine of genius.
It took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if...
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Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycl...
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So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little ...
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The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it...
Show MoreTaste may change, but inclination never.
One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understoo...
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One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any o...
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I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have ther...
Show MoreBetter to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself...
Show MoreWhether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphys...
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You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I...
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherev...
Show MoreThese questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own i...
Show MoreEveryone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherev...
Show MoreOoh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron...
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like ...
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye t...
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Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.
But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of thing...
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have co...
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If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even whe...
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Every cuisine has its characteristic 'flavor principle,' Rozin contends, whether it is tomato-lemon-...
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It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Thus, for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same...
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Such competence is not necessarily acquired by means of the 'scholastic' labours in which some 'cine...
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Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having ...
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There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boar...
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The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But t...
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It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the firs...
Show MorePeople care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...
Show MorePeople care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...
Show MorePeople care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...
Show MorePeople care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...
Show MorePeople care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...
Show MorePeople care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...
Show MorePeople care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...
Show MorePeople care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever...
Show MoreOne picks one's way about through the glass and aluminum doors, the receptionists' smiles, the lunch...
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Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originali...
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My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.
My tastes are aristocratic my actions democratic.
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part...
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When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is re...
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A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish...
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Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it...
Show MoreIf you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the...
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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
All tastes are expressions of belief.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is onl...
Show MoreI love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.